Pandora
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I couldn't help but look you up on the net. You are named in a number of websites, I never read unfit for command, is it true that you were named in the book and quoted? Is this quote what wasn't exactly true. Can you sue for bad quotes?
Questions about another battle incident in which Kerry won the Silver Star.
The Silver Star citation describes Kerry as in command of three boats on the Dong Cung River in Vietnam.
According to the citation, Kerry encountered enemy fire and ordered all his boats to return fire.
He is then described as having landed his boat directly in front of the enemy forces, pursued them, captured enemy weapons, then moving up river for more confrontation with the enemy.
The citation reads, "The extraordinary daring and personal courage of Lt. Kerry in attacking a numerically superior force in the face of intense fire were responsible for the highly successful mission."
The Swift Boat veterans say the citation was presented very quickly, a couple of days after the events in battle and with no review, otherwise the Silver Star would have never been granted.
In his book about Kerry titled "Unfit For Command," co-author John O'Neill wrote of an account by an Army Veteran named Doug Reese that said that when the enemy fire started, it was the boat he was on, not Kerry's, that first reached the beach.
He says that it was the troops on his boat that went on the land, killed enemy forces, and captured weapons, but none of them received Silver Stars.
He goes on to say that Kerry's boat was later hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and pursued a "young Viet Cong in a loincloth" who was eventually shot in the back on land.
O'Neill says Admiral Roy Hoffmann, who had commended Kerry's actions at the time, thought Kerry had bravely beached his boat and "single-handedly" killed a Viet Cong soldier.
He is described as having been shocked to learn that Kerry had killed a single, wounded teenager.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...swiftboats.htm
I read on one page the argument you made on Christmas in Cambodia and the argument you made about the silver star. I think I disagree about the Christmas story but its hard to argue with you on the silver star one when you were there. The different websites that named you said you were a kerry supporter, did they get that part right?
kerry said in is time in Vietnam he personally witnessed beheadings and the cutting off of ears, he said he never personally participated but he saw it done by others. Did you see that stuff too?
also, how long were you in combat in Vietnam and how many metals did you get, what types?
